THE “DARK” PERSONALITY AND COUPLE SATISFACTION

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between some aspects of personality, like narcisism, machiavellianism, psychopaty and relationship satisfaction. This researh started from the idea that some faces of personality can have an impact on the wellbeing, more exactly on the couples relationship satisfaction. The study presents a non-experimental correlational design. The participants ( N = 371 ) were rectuited online, representing persons between 18 and 35 years old, which were in a relationship at the moment of participation. The subjects completed an online questionnaire which consited of a personality inventory and a scale of couple satisfaction. The results of the research showed that there is a relation between machiavellianism, psychopaty and couple satisfaction. There was no relation revealed between narcissism and couple satisfaction.

Keywords: narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy, couple satisfaction